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WOMAN'S W9RK. Talmage's Stirring Sermon on the "Queens of Home." HEROINES OF THE FIRESIDE. Ministering Angels. In the Sick room. What Her Chief Desire Should Be. In this discourse the opportunities of usefulness for women are set forth by Dr. Talmage, and many sympathies are stirred and memories recalled. The text is Solomon's Song vi, S. "There are threescore queens. So Solomon, by one stroke, set forth the imperial character of a true Chris tian woman. She is not a slave, not a hireling, not a subordinate, but a quceen. In a former sermon I showed you that crown and courtly attendants and im perial wardrobe were not necessary to make a quesu, out that graces of the heart and life will give coronation to I any woman. I showed you at once at some length that woman's position was higher in tue world than man's, and that although she had often been denied the right of suffrage, she always did vote and always would vote by her influence, and that her chief desire ought to be that she should have graec rightly to rule in the dominion which she has alread won. I began an enumeration of some of her rights, and now I resume the subject. In the first place woman has the spe cial and the superlative right of bless ing and comforting the sick. What land, what street, what house, has not felt the smitings of disease? Tens of thousands of sickbeds: What shall we do with them? Shall man, with his rough hand and clumsy foot, go stumbl ing around the sickroom, trying to soothe the distracted nerves and allevi ate the pains of the distressed patient? The youngman at college may scoff at the idea of being under maternal in luences, but at the first blast of typhoid fever on his cheek he says, "Where is mother?" Walter Scott wrote partly in satire and partly in compliment: Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy and hard to please, When pain an anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! I think the most pathetic passage in all the Bible is the description of the lad who went out to the harvest field of Shunem and got sunstruck-pressing his hands on his temples and crying out: "Oh, my head! My head!" And they said, "Carry him to his mother." And then the record is, "He sat on her knees till noon and then died." And so it was also through all of our war with Spain-women heroic on the field, braving death and wounds to reach the fallen, watching by their fever cots in the West Indian hospitals or on the troopships or in our smitten home camps. Men did their work with shot and shell and -arbine and howitzer; women did their work with socks and slippers and bandages and warm drinks and Seriptvre texts and gentle strokings of the hot tempses and stories of that land where they never have any pain. Men knelt down over the wounded and said, "On which side did you fight?" Women knelt down over the wounded and said: "Where are you hurt? What nice thing can I make for you to eat? What makes you cry?" Tonight while we men are sound asleep in our beds there will be a light in yonder loft; there will be groaning down that dark alley; there will be cries of distress in that cellar. Men will sleep, andlwomen will watch. Again, woman has a special right to take care of the poor. There are hun dreds and thousands of them all over the land. There is a kind of work that< men cannot do for the poor. iHerei comes a group of little barefoot children1 to the door of the Dorcas society. They need to be clothed and provided for. Which of these directors of banks would know how many yards it would take to' make that little girl a dress? Which of these masculine hands could fit aC hat to that little girl's head? Which of the wise men would know how to tie on that new pair of shoes? 0 Christion young woman, if you would make yourself happy and win the blessing of Christ, go out among the destitute. A loaf of bread or a b ' of socks may make a homely 1-- * i r - carry, but the angels oz God wit - me out to watch and the Lord A. Thty will give his messenger hosts a r , saying, "Look out for that y- aan,. canopy her with your wings and ielter her from all harm," and while you are seated in the house of destitution andI suffering the little ones around theC room will whisper: "Who is she? Ain'tI she beautiful?" And if you will listen right sharply you will hear dripping down through the leaky roof and rollinga over the rotten stairs the angel chant that shook Bethlehem, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men." Can you tell me why a christian wo man going down among the haunts of iniquity on a christian errand never - meets with any indignity? I stood in the chapel of Helen Chalmers. the da-ighter of the celebrated Dr. Chal mers, in the most abandoned part of the city of Edinburgh, and I said to her as I looked around upon the fearful sur roundings of that place, "Do you come here nights to hold a servie?" "Oh., yes," she said. "Can it be possible ? that you never meet with an insult b while performing this christian errand? "Never," she said, "never." That n young woman who has her father by ) her side walking down the street, armed police at each corner is not so well de- ~ fended as that christian woman who " goes forth on gospel work into the ~ haunts of iniquity carrying the bibles u and bread. God, with the red right i arm of his wrath omnipotent, would 1 tear to pieces any one who should offer g indignity to her. He would smite t him with lightnings and drown him C with floods and swallow him with b earthquakes and damn him with eter. ri nal indignations. e Some one said: "I dislike very much sI to see that christian woman teaching t those bad boys in the mission schools. I am afraid to have her instruct them." n "So," said another man. "I am afraid ri too." Said the first, "I am afraid they t< will use vile language before they leave t! the place." "Ah," said the other man, ti "I am not afraid of that. What I am y, afraid of is, that if any of those boys at shouldl use a bad word in her presence e1 the other boys would tear him to pieces ti and kill him on the spot." That wo- ti man is the best sheltered who is shel- s< tered by the Lord God Almighty, and w you need never fear going;i anywhere tl where God tills you to go. a It seems as if the Lord had ordained p woman for an especial work in the so-f licitation of charities. Backed up by o barrels in which there is no flour, and y by stoves in which there is no fire, and T by wardrobes in which there is no y na on her errand, God says to her, 1 You 1ro into that bank or store or shop .ndi-oct the u:oney." She goes in and ets'it. The nan is hard fti3ted, but he aets it. She could not help butget t. It is decree! from eternity she hould get it. N. need of your turn u, your back and pretending you don't iear: you do hear. There is no need of -our saying you are begged to death. [here is no need of your wasting your ime. "nd you might as well submit lr t as las. You had better right away ake down your checkbook, mark the umber of the cheek, till up the blank, izn your name and hand it to her. Lere i; no need of wasting time. Those oor !hildren on the back street have )-a hurg:ry long cnough. That sick Lan must ha7 some farina. That con umptive must have something to ease 'is cough. I mect this delegate of a elief seciety coming out of the store of uch a hard fisted man, andI say, "Did Fou get the money?" "Of course," she ays **I got the money; that's what I went in for. The Lord told me to go in lld get it, and he never sends me on a rool's errand." Again, I have to tell you that it is a wo.an's specific right to comfort under the stress of dire disaster. She is call d the weaker vessel, but all profane as well as sacred history attests that when the crisis comes she is better preparec than man to mect the emergency. How >ften you have seen a woman who seem ?d to be a disciple of frivolity and in lolence, who, under one stroke of ca amity, changed to a heroine. Oh, what a great mistake thore business men make who never tell their business roubles to their wives! There comes some great loss to their store, or some f their companions in business play them a sad trick, ar.d they carry the burden all alone. He is asked in the household again and again: "What is the matter?" But he be lieves in a sort of Christian duty to keep all that trouble within his own soul. Oh, sir, your first duty was to tell your wife all about it! She perhaps might not have disentangled your finances or extended your credit, but she would have helped you to bear misfortune. You have no right to carry on one'shoul der that which is intended for two. Business men know what Imean. There came a crisis in your affairs. You strug gled bravely and long, but after awhile there came a day when you said' "Here I shall have to stop," and you called in your partners, and you called in the most prominent men in your employ, and you said, "We have got to stop." You left the store suddei.ly. You could hardly make up your mind to pass through the street and over on the fer ryboat. You felt everybody would be looking at you and blaming you and de nouncing you. You hastened home. You told your wife all about the atfair What did she say? Did she play the butterfly? Did she talk about the silks, and the. ribbons, and the fash ions? No. She came up to the emergency. 'he quailed under the stroke. She of ered to go out of the comfortable house into a smaller one and wear the old :oak another winter. She was the one who understood your- affairs without blaming you. You looked upon what ou thought was a thin, weak woman's irm holding you up; but while you look ed at that arm there came into the fee le muscles of it the strength of the eternal God. No chiding. No fret :ing. No telling you about the beautiful douse of her father from which you brought her 10. 20 or 30 years ago. ou said: "Well, this is the happiest lay of my life. I am glad I have got ~rom under my burden. My wife don't eare-I don't care." at the moment ou were exhausted God sent a Debo ah to meet the host of Amalekites and scatter them like chaff over the plain. [here are sometimes women who sit eading sentimental novels and who wish that they had some grand field in which to displlay their Christian pow ~rs. What grand and glorious things hey could do if they only had an oppor unity' My sister, you need not wait er any such time. A crisis will come n your affairs. There will be a Ther nopylae in : ar household where God ill tell y ou to stand. There are cores and hundreds of households to ay where as much bravery and courage re demanded of women as was exhibit d by G race Darling or Marie Antoin tte or Joan of Arc. Again, I remark it is a woman's ght to bring to us the kingdom of hea en. It is easier for a woman to be a histian than for a ma'a. Why? You ay she is weaker. No. Her heart is nore responsive to the pleadings of di 'e love. She is in vast majority. he fact that she can more easily be ome a Christian I prove by the state aent that three-fourths of the members f >hurches in all Christendom are we en. So God appoints them to be theI hief agencies for bringing thi3 world pa'k to Goil. I may stand here and ay the soul is immortal; there is aman rho will deny it. I may stand here nd say we are lost and undone without ~hrist:;- there is a man who will contra .ict it. I may stand here and say there rill be a judgment day after awhile; onder is some one who will disputs it 1 lut a Christian woman in a Christian .ousehold. living in the faith and con istency of Christ's gospel-nobody can efute that. The greatest sermons are ot preached on celebrated platforms. hey are preached with an audience of wo or three and in private home life t consistent, consecrated Christian ser ice is an unanswerable demonstration f God's truth. A sailor came slipping down the rat nes one night, as though something ad happened. and the sailors cried, hat's the matter?" He said, "My other's prayer haunts me like a ghost. I lome influences, consecrated home in-I uenes. are the mighticst of all infnu-a aces upon the soul. There are men i 'ho have maintained their integrity ot because they were any better nat- a rally than some other people, but be- d use there were home influences pray2 t ig for them all the time. They got ay >od start. They were latuxehed on a ie world with the benedictions of a t, ristian no:her. They may track Si- '3 rian shov~s, they may plunge in Af- i can jungles, they may flee to the i rth's end-they cannot go so far-and i fast but the prayers will keep up with iem.e I speak',to women who have the eter al salvation of their husbands in their I ght. hand. On marriage day you f ok an oath before men and angels aat you would be faithful and kind un death did you part, and I believe u are going to keep that oath, but h ter that parting at the grave will it be e ernal separation? Is there any such a iing as an immortal marriage, making I e fowers that grow on the top of the b ~puher brighter than the garlands r hih at the marriage banquet flooded si e air with aroma? Yes, I stand here ti 2 embassador of the most high God to d claim the banns of an immortal union r all those who join hands in the grace a: Christ. O woman, is your husbaad, f< ur father, your son, away from God? tl he Lord demands their redemption at ir ur hands. There are prayers for you b .o give, there are examples for you to set, and I say now, as Paul said to the Corinthian woman, "What knowest Lbou but thou shalt save thy husband?" A. man was dying, and he said to his wife: "Rebecca, you wouldn't let me have family prayers; you laughed about all that, and you got me away into worldliness, and now I'm going to die, and my fate is sealed, and you are the ,-ause of my ruin!" 0 woman, what knowest thou but thou canst destroy thy husband? Are there not some of-you who have kindly influences at home? Are there not some who have wandered far away rrom God who can remember the Chris ti.n influences in their early home? Do not despise those-'influences, my brother. If you die without Christ, what will you do with your mother's prayers, with your wife's importunities, with your sister's entreaties? What will you do with the letters they used to write to you, with the memory of those days when they attended you so kindly in times of sickness? Oh, if there be just one strand hoiding you from floating off..from that dark sea, I would just like to take hold of that strand now and pull you to the beach! For the sake of your wife's God, for the sake of your mother's God, for the sake >f your sister's God, come this day and and be saved. Lastly I wish to say that one of. the specific rights of woman is, through the grace of Christ, finally to reach heaven. 0 what a multitude of women in heav en! Mary, Christ's mother, in heaven, Elizabeth Fry in heaven; Charlotte Elizabeth in heaven; themother of Au gustine in heaven: the Countess of Hun tington, who sold her splendid jewels to build chapels, in heaven, while a great many others, who have never been heard of on earth or known but little, have gone into the rest and peace of heaven. What a rest! What a change it was from the small room, with no fire and one window (the glass broken out) and the aching side and wornout eyes, to the "house of many mansions!" No more stitching until 12 o'clock at night, no more thrusting of the thumb by the employer through the work, to shw it was not done quite righL Plenty of bread at last! Heaven for aching heads, heaven for broken hearts, heaven for anguish bitten frames! No more sitting until midnight for the com ing of staggering steps! No more rough blows across the temples! No more shaip, keen, bitter curses! Some of you will have no rest in ' world. It will be toil and struggle suffering all the way up. You 'ii have to stand at your door fighting b ok the wolf with your own hand, red v iLh carnage. But God has a crow i for you. I want you to realize this mora ing that he is now making it. and when ever you weep a tear he sets another gem in that crown. Whenever you have a pang of body or soul he puts an other gem in that crown until after awhile in all the tiara there will be no room for another splendor, and God will say to his angel: "The crown is done. Let her up, that she may wear it." And as the Lord of righteousness puts the crown upon your brow angel will cry to angel, "Who is she?" and Christ will say: "I will tell you who she is. She is the one that came up out of great tribulation and had her robe washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb." And then God will spread a banquet, and helwill in 'ite all the principalities of heaven to sit at the feast, and the tables will blush with the best clusters from the vineyards of God and crimson with the 12 manner of fruits from the tree of ife, and waters from the fountains of the rock will flash from the golden tankards, and the old harpers of heav >n will sit there, making music with their harps, and Christ will point you ut amid the celebrities of heven, say ing, "She suffered with me on earth; aw we are going to be glorified togeth r." And the banqueters, no longr able to hold their peace, will break fo. h with congratulation, "Hail, hail A~d there will be handwritings on the wall not such as struck the Babylonian aoblemen with horrow, but fire tipped Ingers, writing in blazing capitals of ight and love, "God hath wiped away dl tears from all faces!" A New Counterfeit. There is a new $10 counterfeit bill n circulation, and the money handlers iae been warned of its appearance. rhe note should not deceive anyone ~amiliar with paper money, though it vould scarcely ever be detected by the nan who is not familiar with a "ten ~pot." The following circular de erbirg the counterfeit has been re ~eivd here: "New counterfeit $10 ~ilvr certificate, series of 1891, check etter 1), plate number 14, B. K. Bruce, egister; Ellis H. Roberts, treasurer;( >Ortrait of Hendricks. This note is a 1 ithograph, printed on two sheets of Japanese tissue paper, between which ~ery coarse red and blue silk fibre hasr >een distributed. The lathe work inc ~ounters in face is creditably executed' ettering in border so blurred as to bee llegible; color of ink is a redd ish brown, nstead of carmine. The nunmber of he note at hand is E20,394,345; colord nd formation of numbers is good, butd ignmcnt bad. The back of the noter s more deceptive than the face. The umber of the back plate is ?6. Line 1: Bureau of Engraving and Printing' is o blurred as to be illegible, and all oft he ornamental work is so blurred that 1 Letail is lost. The note will not de-d ive anyone familiar with money. The v redit for the discovery of the note ist Lue the cashier of National Park Bank, b ~ew York." b Merited Success. Special attention is called to the i arge advertisement of the Columbia usiness Coliege, which appears in ~ nther column of this paper. There s no school in the country that turns ~ ut more successful graduates, or is iore progressive, more alive to the 1t emands of the times or that has a bet- ~ er business or shorthand course. No oung man or lady who is thinking of f, ttending a business college should fail u, send for one of their catalogues. b 'he college makes a specialty of secur- a og good positions for its graduates and h often has more calls than it can fill. d very graduate of the college and many t rominent business men of Columbia ndorse the school as one of the very est. A postal addressed to Prof. W. [. Newberry, the president will b:i ill particulars. A Butterfly Visit. Thousands of butterflies invaded ingston, N. Y., the other day. They verd the streets and sidewalks, and ti Stimes the air was filled with them. J is thought that the butterflies were L lown in from the far West, and the hi ~sidents of the town fear that the in- 7; cts will lay their eggs in the maple it ees and thereby give risc to a great w eal of trouble next summer. ~ t "I have used your 'Life for the Liver m ad Kidneys' with great benefit, and at yr Dyspepsia or any derangement of a< e Liver or Kidneys I regard it.as be- at ig without an equal." James J. Os- p. rne, Attorney at Law, Boliston, ar OUR NOBLE DEAD Who Gave Up Their Lives a Chickamauga. THEY ARE:NOT FORGOTTEN An Effort' Being Made to Place Suitable Memorial to South Carolina Soldiers in the Park. An effort will be made to erect monument to the South Carolina Con federate dead in Chickamauga Park The following memorial is being cire lated throughout thc State for signa tures: To the Ilonorable the Senate ani House ofilRepresentatives of the Statt of South Carolina: The undersignei respectfully call to your attention thal by a joint resolution passed on Decem ber 22, 1894, provision was; made foi the appointment of what is known ai the Chickamauga commission; pursuan1 to which a commission was appointei by the Governor, consisting of Gen I] L Farley, Capt R F MeCaslin, Cap, Perry Moses, Capt A C Appieby, Get C I Walker, Capt C K Ilenderson, I P Iarling, Capt E J Gozgins, Major J D McLucas and Capt Culpepper, to in quire into and report what suitable monuments should be erected to com memorate the deels of the Confederat< soldiers of South Carolina upon th< Chickamauga battlefield. Said com mission was duly organized, visited th< battlefield and made their report, re commending the erection of suitabl< mionuments for said purpose at propei places on the field. Nothing has been done towards sup plying the commissien with means t( carry on this laudable end, and w< earnestly urge that the General Assem bly appropriate at its next session at least the sum of $10,000 for said pur pose. It is due by the people of Soutl Carolina to the heroic dead who perish ed at Chickamauga that said monu ments should be erected, and we ar< satisfied that the taxpayers of the Stat< will sustain the General Assembly ir such action. In addition the following order ha< !)en issued to Confederate Veterans: Charleston, S. C., Sept. 5, 1899. General Orders No. 45. At the Chester Convention the fol. lowing resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved, 1st. That this Convention memorialize the Legislature to appropri ate the sum necessary to erect propei monuments on the battlefield of Chicka mauga to the < dor of the sons of Caro [ina who participated in that glorious victory. 2d. That the accompanying memorial be adopted, and that copies be sent tc mach camp, which shall secure from Veterans, Sons of Veterans and citizens ignatures to the same, and that these nemorials be returned to the division ommander before January 1, 1900. 3d. That the division commander shall appoint a committee of five, who, ith himself, shall constitute a comn ittee to present the memorial to the Legislature. Camps will please secure signatures :o the accompanying memorial; not signatures of Veterans alone, but of ll citizens of South Carolina who would ndorse the memorial. Most of the Northern States, and any of the Southern States, have ~reted such monuments, and it is due o the matchless bravery of South Car' lina's sons that the places consecrated >y their heroism shall be marked in ~ommon with those of other States. ~s the memorials on the battlefield now tand South Carolina had no part in hat glorious victory. Shall this re nain so? Shall the magnificent valor >f her sons be still unmarked? The comrades of this division are irged to secure so many signatures that he General Assembly will be bound to ~espect their request to do honor to the plendid achievements of the sons of 3outh Carolina. By order of C. Irvine Walker, Comn nander 5. 0. Division, U. C. V. James G. Holmes, Adjutant-General, Chief of Staff. HIGHWAY R3OBBBRY. tage Held Up by Solitary Robber, Who Took the Box. A dispatch from Napa, Cal., says the 3aligtoga and Lakeport stage was held ip Thursday by a solitary high waym~an, rho made off with the express box. At the scene of the robbery the road uns through a heavy undergrowth, and oming suddenly around a curve the tage driver was confronted by a mask d robber, who covered him with his hotgun and ordered him to stop. The assengers were then commanded to ismount from the stage and were rawn 'no in a row while the highway eti . dated the box of Wells, Fargo C o., but left the United States mail ag. The highwayman then turned his at ention to the row of eight frightened assengers, whom he commanded to eposit on the ground their money and aluables; Rev. C. F. Coy, pastor of he Methodist church at Middleton, anded the bandit $5 remarking: "1 m a poor preacher and that is all I .ave." Upon this statement the high rayan handed the minister back $1 a change. "All right, pard," he said, "here's se simoleon for luck." Newton Stiff, an old resident of Mid leton, had a considerable sum in his urse, but slipped the wallet inside his ng boot, giving the robber only the yose silver in his pocket. In all about $75 in cash was secured -om the passengers in addition to -atches, chains and trinkets. The rob er then plunged into the thicket which joins the road, and the last heard of im was a report, wnich probably in icated the blowing off of the lo us i express box. MOi. T:; HALF BILLION. [utual Life Insurance Co. Has Re urned to Its Members $500 870,737. New York, September 16.-More ian half a billion dollars paid. Up to uy 1 of the cuirrent year the Mutual ife Insurance Company, of New York, as returned to its members $500,570, - 17, or over half a billion dollars, and s accumulated assets on that date ere 288,5336,471. This shows that e company has practically paid out as uch money to the insuring public as y other two companies of like char ~ter, and that by holding a larger nount in assets than any other com iny it is beyond qluestion the largest id strongest institution of its kind in e worl. Allan Forman_ t 'BOCU ] Makes the food mor ROYAL BAK SPREADING OUT. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroa New Purchase. According to the Augusta Chroni 'of Thurday the Atlantic Coast L paid one million dollars for a half terest in the Georgia railroad lea Says the Chronicle: "This is a f which the Chronicle has learned sic the meeting in Atlanta of the Atlan and West Point and Western of A bama roads. Thursday morning I half million of securities of the Co: Line were passed upon by th.e Georl railroad directors and accepted. Th< a-e more reasons than one why t Coast Line wanted a share of this lei: as is shown in the annual statement Georgia railroad earnings for the p year which are no secret, and up which Col. T. K. Scott, general in; ager, has been receiving very wa congratulations. These earnings sh that for the second time in the hist< of the road under the lease it has eai ed enough money to pay the rent The earnings, including interest fr< the securities under the lease, $614,179.60, or $14,179.60 over a above the rental, the rental being $60 000 a year. The other occasion which it earned .ts rental was duri the management of Major Greene. E this is not all the profit to the lei holders under their contract. I Georgia road owns other very valual railroad property. It has a controlli interest in the Atlantic and West Po' and a half interest in the Western Alabama. Of course the Coast Line der the purchase fall heir to one quar interest in these two properties duri the lifetime of the lease. The Chroi cle published Thursday that the lantic and West Point declared a dia dend of 25 per cent. on the capi stock. By the declaration of this di dend the lessees of the Georgia ca into possession of $123,605. T] amount added to the income of 1l year-614,179.60-makes a grand a tal of $737,7S4.60, or $137.804.60 clean cash over and above the ann rental of $600,000 for the Georgia ra road. THE WEATHER AND CROPS. Weekly Review of United Stal Weather Bureau for this State. The following is the weekly bullet of the condition of the weather a crops of the State issued Wednesday Director Bauer of the South Caroli section of the United States Weatt Bureau's climate and crop service: The mean temperature, during t week ending September 11, 1899, av aged about S3 degrees, which is nea 7 degrees per day above the norm A maximum of 101 was recorded Cheraw, and a minimum of 62 at Te peran ce. There were local showers over t entire State, light along the coast a over the Pee D~ee regioli, heavy os the central and western counties, wn< many localities had weekly amounts excess of two inches. The need of ra is indicated for the two regions i named, while dry weather is needed permit gathering crops over the greal portion of the State. Army worms either have alheady d appeared or arc fast disappearing Corn has recently come into silk -- tassel, and on bottom lands, loo promising, but generally the crop l not improved and is a poor one. F<. den pulling is nearly finished and t fodder has been secured in good cont tion. Locally heavy rains and high win damaged open cotton, a~nd a few ports of rotting and sprouting were ceived. Picking was retarded in a f western counties by wet weather, b generally it made rapid progress, as fr( half to two-thirds of the bolls are ope caused by the continued excessive he; In sections, about all the cotton will gathered during this month. There w be no top crop over most of the Stai although late cotton is still growing a: blooming, as it is improbable that fru age now being put on will have time mature before frost. Also, much c< ton is not growing at all, the stalks ha ing reached full maturity. Poor yiel are reported from all sections, and picking advances, the tendency is to duce previous estimates. Sea islai cotton has improved slightly, althou, it is rusting and is opening slowl Second growth is also a damaging pr railing condition. The weather was ideal for harvestii rice, and about half the crop has be< cut and stacked, while the remaind is ripening fast. Sorghum is being pressed and boil with fairly good 3ields of excelle quaity of syrup. Grass for hay ai pastures is making rapid growth. Pc vines being cut for forage. Peas ha improved except in Marlboro and Che terfield countie's, where hot, dry went: en ruined them. The general prospe for minor crops is now quite promisin especially so for s .weet potatoes. In tI truck regions, fall crops are beit planted, and the second crop of Iri! pct:tes being gathered. A Brutal Assault. Four or five men went to the aln house in Transylvania county N.( about ten days ago and entered tb room of Brazil Chappel, a weak minde white woman. choking her to preve; an outcry. The men carried her to tU bushes and assaulted her, keeping hi there several hours. She crawled bac to the house about 3 o'clock a. m an told her story. The matter was kei quiet till the officers could secure clue: On Sunday the first arrest was mad< the- e':et being Tillman Andersor a negra, John Gather, another ncgr upect, was arrested in Asheville an taken to Brevard, the county seat c Transylvania. John Gaston, a negrn and John Stancill, white, are also sum peted and warrants are out for them. McKinley's Religion. The Omaha Herald reports iDr. Rad er's temperance lecture, and include the following: "Now, there's President McLinley, he said, "he's a Methodist, and we use to be proud of it. But we're not prou of Mr. McKinley since his stand o that canteen business. Are we?' "How many of you are proud of hur now?" Not a sound. "How many of you are ashamed the Mr. McKinley is a Methodist?" One woman in a far corner murmure< "I." "Is that all?'' asked Dr. Rader. An< then the response came from all ove Lr PURE m delicious and wholesome i6 POWDER CO., NEW YORK. THE COTTON RECEIPTS d's White Staple Pouring on Market. A ele ne Heavy Demand. in se. Secretary Hester's New Orleans cot et ton exchange statement shows the cc amount brought into sight for the week :ic ending Friday is 230,705 bales, against la- 152,197 for the seven days ending Sep he tember 15th last year, 227,046 year be tst fore last and 302,386 same time in 1896. ,ia This makes the total amount for the re 15 days of the new season 408,404, he against 239,221 last year, 372.593 year Lse before last and 508,374 same time in of 189;. Ist The statement shows receipts at all on United States ports since September 1st M- of 280. 019, against 153,754 last year and rm 232,599 year before last; overland across )w the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac ry rivers to northern mills and Canada, n- 1S.279, against 8,314 last year, and al. 3,290 year before last; interior stocks m in excess of those held at the close of Lre the commercial year 49,029, against rd 22,076 last year, and 86,765 year before D,- last; southern mill takings 61,077, on against 55,077 last year. and 50,939 n g year before last. ut Foreign exports for the 15 days have se been 114,215, against 68,535. The to he tai takings of American mills, north e and south and Canada, thus far for the ng season have been 104,561 bales, against nt 75,271 last year. These include 43. of 484 by northern spinners, against 18, n- 194. er Since the close of the commercial ng year stocks at American ports and the ii- 29 leading southern interior centres Lt- have been increased 189,628 bales, i- against an increase for the same period tal last season of 97.415, and are now 443, vi- 545 more than at this date last year. ne Including amounts left over in stocks iis at ports and interior towns from the st last crop and the number of bales ;o- brought into sight thus far for the new in crop, the supply to date is 1,027,302, al against 506,787 for the same period 11- last year. HE HAS A PULL. es Senator McLaurin on Good Terms in With McKinley. ad The Washington correspondent of the by Charleston Post says Senator MeLaurin 2a of South Carolina is among the distin er guished Southern statesmen in Wash ington. He is here on business before he the War Department, trying to secure - commissions for some of his constitu y ents and also in relation to the matter .- of thie State claimis growing out of the at Spanish-American war. S The senator called at the executive mansion the other day in relation to 2ed placing some applications before the idpresident for commissions, and was re er ceived very cordially. President Mc re Kinley and Senator McLaurin are, as is Pn well known, on very good terms, politi incally, notwithstanding the political af 3t filiations of the junior senator from to South Carolina. On several occasions er the se nator has supported the politics is of the administration, and moreover he shas a very high opinion of the chief ex ecutive. The senator stands very well a d at the White Ihouse, and the president ks usually seems disposed to graLnt h's re as quests in the matter of State patronage. h- Senator McLaurin says that politics hin South Carolina just now is not arousing any great interest. The peo dsplc of the State are naturally interested din the Philippine question an-i hope for --a solution of the difficulties as speedily -as possible. The senator thinks that * ongress will be disposed to support at thle President in his efforts to bring m about such termination of the war on "'the islands, and will grant him all the aid necessary for this purpose. be I eadto State affairs, Senator 11McLaurin says that business in South e, Carolina has been very good, and that Id the farmers as a rule are contented. t- The senator will likely be in Washing to ton several days before returning home. v- The Mortgage. as The mortgage is a self-supporting in e; It always holds its own. m It calls for just as many dollars ;h when cotton is cheap as when itis dear. Y. It is not affected by the drouth. e- It is not drowned out by heavy rains. It never winter kills. ig Late springs and early frosts never an trouble it. er Caterpillers never disturb it. Moth and rust do not destroy it. d It grows nights, Sundays, rainy: days it and holidays. d It brings a sure crop every year and - sometimes twice a year. Ce It produces cash ever time. s- It does not have to wait for the mar 1- ket to advance. et It is not subject to speculation of ~the bulls and bears of the board of eC trade. gIt is a load that galls and frcts and h chafes. It is a burden that the farmer can not shake off. s It is with him morning, noon and night. e' It eats with him at the table. d It gets under his pillow when he t sleeps. e It rides upon his shoulders during r the day. S It consumes his cotton crop. d It devours his cattle. tIt selects his finest horses and the fattest steers. It stalks into the dairy where the busy housewife toils day after day, and Smonth after month, and takes the jnicest theese and the choicest butter. SIt shares the children's bread, and robs them of half their clothes. - it stoops the toiler's back with its remorseless burden of care. It hard -1 ens his hands, benumbs his intellect,J prematurely whitens his looks, and - oftentimes send him and his aged wife over the hill to the poor house. It is the inexorable and exacting task-master. 3. It is a menace to liberty, a hindrance I to progress, a curse to the world. He Was Dead. Goy. Wolcott of Massachusetts re censly appointed e dead man to the of fice of medical examiner in District No-. t 3, Barnstable county. The appointee not unnaturally failed to qualhify, and the Governor's attention having been called to this fact he renominated the 1U I deceased physician. The executive has e just learned that the man whom be in tene to hoao died in April last. -~: Priest Msaries His Nurse. Father Charles Brady, a priest of the Catholic church, was taken sick in Quincy, Ill., three weeks ago, and was nu-sed back to health by Miss Addie Gwinn, a Protestant nurse. It is an nounced that Father Brady and the' nurse were mairie.d in St. Louis a few days ago by a Protestant minister. The marriage means the retirement of the priest from the church. Father Brady, who is wealthy, was educated for the priesthood at Rome. Ravisher Hanged. A Negro was arrested at Ty-Ty, Ga., positively identified as one of the two Negroes who assaulted Miss Johnson at that place last Tuesday. Two hundred men heavily armed assembled at Ty-Ty. People passing on a train at 2 o'clock this morning saw a Negro suspended 20& feet in the air from a telegraph poles Scarch for the other Negro continue. t Kills Herself and Daby. Mrs. J. M. Williams, of Sedatia, Mo., wife of a Missouri Pacific breakeman, saturated the clothing of herself and two-months-old babe with. kerosene Wednesday and then set fire'to the gar ments. She was burned to death and the babe was fatally burnedr Mrs. Williams has for some time been con idered of unsound mind. To Consumers of Lager Beer: The Germania Brewing Company, of harleston, S. C., have made arrangements I with the South Carolina State authorities by which they are enabled to fill orders rom consumers for shipments of beer in mny quantity at the following prices: Pints, patent stopper, 60c. per dozen. Four dozen pints in crate, $2.80 per crate. Eighth-keg, $1.25. Quarter-keg. $2.25. Half-barrel, $4.50. Exports, pints, ten dozen in barrel, $9. It will be necessary for consumers or >arties ordering,to state that the beer is for rivate consumption. We offer special ates for these shipments. This beer is c naranteed pure, made of the choicest hops td malt, and is recommended by the nedical fraternity. Send to us for a trial >rder. G EEMANIA Brewing Company, Charleston, S. C. WHEN YOU COME TO TOWN CALL AT WELLS' SHAVING SALOON Which is fitted up with an eye to the comfort of his customers..... HAIR-CUTTIY6 IN ALL STYLES, S H AV I N G AND SHAMPOOING Donri with neatness and d ispatch.. .. . ... A cordiia invitation is extendeil.. J. L. WELLb. T Eraomoe sEf,Chemti messtSliestantBsneitIer dCuMorp i rginetl. NOT NAEC OTIC. ApefetRem~edy forionlsipa- I tion,SourStomach,DiaZad1ea, Worms,ConvulsionsFeverisht ess andLosS OF SLEEP. ~ygac5imile'Signature~ of NEW YoHR. ExAcT COPY UF'WMEE.B. N Win. 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